Norwegian cross-country skier Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo set himself apart from every other Winter Olympian who came before him on Saturday during the Milan Cortina Games.

Klaebo won his sixth gold medal of the Games – this one coming in the 50-kilometer mass start. He set the record for the most gold medals by one athlete in a single Winter Olympics. He breaks a record set by American speedskater Eric Heiden, who won five golds in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.

Heiden still owns the individual record as two of Klaebo’s wins have come in team events.

Klaebo’s teammates Marin Loewstroem Nyenget and Emil Iversen took home silver and bronze respectively. The trio of Norwegians broke out to an early lead and then continued to build a gap on their chasers.

Klaebo took over the lead as they reached the final hill. He didn’t look back from there.

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He already entered Michael Phelps territory earlier in the Games when he became the first Winter Olympian to have at least 10 gold medals. He now has 13 on his resume. Phelps finished his career with 23.

The win gave Norway a record 18th gold medal and further increased their lead in the total medal count in these Olympics to 40 overall.

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On Friday, the country set a record for the most gold medals won by a nation at a single Winter Olympics. Norway’s Johannes Dale-Skjevdal won the 15-kilometer mass start.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The rise of girls’ flag football is following a familiar path. There now are travel teams with girls competing in offseason competitions as all-star teams similar to seven-on-seven football tournaments.

Under The Radar sports media, which for years has shot videos for YouTube and been involved in 11-man football competitions, is sponsoring a flag football team gaining attention for its success this year.

Called the Ballerettes, the team has several high school athletes from Southern California.

Leah Davis is a sophomore from Upland who was All-Baseline League. Denver De Jongh was a standout freshman at Mater Dei.
Savvy Su’e was the freshman quarterback at Banning last season. She also plays softball and basketball.

As participation and popularity rise, you can expect more travel competitions, camps and opportunities for college recruiting.

This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.

The Olympic men’s hockey semifinals got underway on Friday morning, and the opening course was a heavyweight clash between Canada and Finland.

Both the Canadians and Finns made it this far thanks to OT thrillers in the semi-finals, but for Team Canada, the win came at a cost. Captain Sidney Crosby was injured on a hit from Czechia’s Radko Gudas and left the game early.

Just a little before puck drop on Friday, it was announced that he would be out of the lineup against Finland.

This was the last news Canada needed against a very good Finnish team that plays way more physically than Finnish teams in Olymipcs past.

The Finns opened the scoring toward the end of a fast and physical opening frame with Mikko Rantanen lighting the lamp just seconds into a Finnish power play after Canada’s Sam Bennett got the gate for goaltender interference.

Nashville Predators goaltender Juuse Saros came up big multiple times as the Canadians got much more rubber on net than the Finns did.

Special teams continued to be a big story in the second as we got our first taste of the Crosby-less Canadian power play after Sebastian Aho was called for interference, but things went off the rails in a hurry.

Finland stunned Canada by managing to clear the puck out of their zone and spring Nashville’s Erik Haula for a shorthanded breakaway, which he buried to go up 2-0.

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About ten minutes later, Finland’s Anton Lundell took a high-sticking penalty, and — would you believe? — special teams were the story once again, only this time it was in Canada’s favor.

Lundell’s Florida Panthers teammate Sam Reinhart deflected a Cale Makar shot from the point to get rid of that goose egg for the Canadians.

Canada continued to bring the pressure, and with just under ten minutes left in regulation, they were outshooting the Finns 29-14.

That pressure resulted in a Shea Theodore missile from the top of the circle finding the back of the net.

The Finns were unhappy about the contact that Brad Marchand made with Saros, but if you watch that again, the contact was clearly initiated by Finland’s Erik Haula in the crease.

Canada never took its foot off the gas after that, and that pressure certainly played a role in Finland’s Niko Mikkola taking a penalty for high-sticking Nathan MacKinnon with around two and a half minutes left in regulation.

And once again, special teams produced, with Nathan MacKinnon scoring the game-winner with just 35.2 seconds left in regulation.

The Finns challenged the goal, saying the Canadians had entered the zone offside — and boy, was it close; totally worth taking a swing at — but the call stood, and Team Canada was up 3-2.

That was how things ended, with the Canadians going on a 3-0 rally to cement their spot in the gold medal game on Sunday, where they’ll face the winner of Friday afternoon’s other semifinal game between Team USA and Slovakia.

As for the Finns, they still have some business to tend to as they’ll face the loser of that game in the bronze medal game on Saturday.

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